Frank Moore after
spending several days with his family at Stanley returned to his
work here for the Barron Woolen Mills Co., Tuesday.

Mrs. Edward Schroeder and
children went to Neillsville Sunday and will remain at the Chas.
Babcock home until the remodeling of the Schroeder home is
completed.

Mrs. C. A. Guth was given
a birthday surprise party Sunday. All participating had a
good time and hope such treats may come to pass annually,
hereafter.

Frank Mellentine of
Spencer came down Monday on a visit to his nephew Fred Schwantes,
the Pleasant Ridge cheesemaker.

Mrs. John Martin and baby
son after a few days visit at John Hiles returned to Schofield on
Monday. Mrs. Martin left the little girl here just recovering
from tonsillitis, but too ill to make the trip home,
then.

Ludwig Eschenberg drove
in from Shortville Tuesday and met his daughter Rose who came home
from Minneapolis, that day.

Mrs. E. D. Prange and
baby daughter came home Tuesday from a two weeks visit among
relatives and friends at Plymouth, Waldo, Sheboygan and Sheboygan
Falls.

Herman Wegner recently
completed a number of elegant team sheds on the lots west of his
hotel. There are now an amount of good sheds in the village and
there is no excuse for anyone leaving their horses stand in the
streets in stormy and cold weather.

The Knorr-Rausch Hardware
Co. are building an addition onto their store building, which when
completed will serve as an automobile repair shop. L. A.
Marsh and his assistants are doing the carpenter work.

Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
Schuler and son Stewart together with Mr. Schuler’s sister,
Miss Olga, arrived here from Brillion last week Thursday and took
possession of the M. C. Redmond farm recently purchase in
York.

August Kempin of chili
was in town Wednesday. It is the first time he has been here
since the railroad accident in which he suffered such serious
injuries during the first week of September. He is quite
himself again now.

President Taft’s
special train carrying the Nation’s Chief passed through here
at 2:20 Thursday a.m. on his way to Fond du Lac. Geo. Fraser with
his section crew worked all night as it was imperative that the
track be patrolled an hour in advance of this train’s
passing.

W. J. Gerlach, proprietor
of the Heathville Cheese Factory returned from Mount Clements,
Mich., last Saturday where he spent about two weeks taking
treatments at the hot springs. Mr. Gerlach has been suffering
severely with rheumatism for a number of years, but he is
practically cured now.

Oscar Treichler after
spending a week at Riedel’s and Braatz’s took the train
Sunday for Milwaukee where he holds a good position with the Pabst
Brewing Co. Carl and Herman Braatz accompanied him as far as
Black River Falls.

A petition is being
circulated here for the purpose of inducing the railroad company to
install night service in this depot. A night man here would
be greatly appreciated, especially by the traveling public, but we
are in doubt of the company granting this request. Some time
ago the people near Kurth petitioned the railroad company to erect
a depot at that place and as a consequence they found their station
taken from the map entirely. We hope that this petition will
not have a similar effect on Granton, and that we may not be
deprived of our train service at night altogether.

H. A. Bright of Bright
transacted business here between trains Monday forenoon. While here
he whiled away several hours in our sanctum and it was during that
time that we enjoyed a most interacting visit with this venerable
gentleman. Mr. Bright is one of the old time loggers and many
an interesting story he can relate from the early day logging
industry on Black River. He is one of the oldest residents of
Black River Falls, but most of his time in late years he has spent
on his farm at Bright, a station named in his honor on the Foster
railroad. Being one of the big property owners at Black River
Falls his loss in the recent flood there is consequently
severe. But Mr. Bright is one of those who can only see the
bright side of life. He said the disaster at that city when
his property, including a nice wood pile, was swept away by the
water, reminded him of a North Dakota wind storm. If a
man’s hat is blown away there, he very seldom runs after it,
but stands there and waits until somebody else’s comes
along. In five years from now, he said, Black River Falls
will be rebuilt, and the people will have forgotten all about this
great flood.